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Did the German court include funding nuclear power?

• mschuster91 5y ago
  No, for a number of reasons: 1) Even if we would order a new plant now, it would only be ready in 10-15 years. Building the equivalent amount in wind, solar and battery for storage would be ready faster and cheaper overall. 2) We don't have a permanent, safe place to dump the waste - the "old" reactors might be grandfathered in, but I can't imagine the BVerfG to let anything new pass that would expose future generations to the liability of dealing with the waste. 3) We don't have the cooling capacity - even back when we had more nuclear plants, they had to be regularly limited in power output in the summer because the rivers would get too hot otherwise.
  • dTal 5y ago
    Surely nuclear waste is a non-issue - a fully fueled nuclear reactor runs for decades! The volume of generated waste is miniscule.